Christmas Baking 2011: Chocolate Crinkle Kisses

Chocolate Crinkle Kisses

My friend Anna made these cookies one year as a hostess gift when she and her hubby André came for dinner. Barb of Profiteroles and Ponytails introduced us to André about 20 years ago (André is a commercial photographer whom I employed a lot in my corporate days). I LOVED the candy cane flavour with the chocolate and I begged her for the recipe; she was happy to oblige and it’s been on my Christmas cookie list ever since. Hope you love it too! Check out Jessica’s blog kitchenbelleicious, she has a great candy cookie recipe with white chocolate and actual candy canes!

We can get these every year at Walmart

Anna’s Chocolate Krinkle Kisses

SEE UPDATE: Makes about 3 dozen or more cookies- depending on the size you like. My cookies start out about the size of a walnut.

Chocolate Krinkle Kisses

Update December 2015:

Make each ball 20 g and you will yield 44 cookies. The new bags of Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses (88 g) contain 20 pieces so instead of buying 3 bags and having a bunch left over, I simple cut 4 in half top to bottom and lay them into the cookie.

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix the melted butter with the cocoa powder and granulated sugar.

Using an electric mixer, beat the eggs and vanilla Into the chocolate mixture.

Slowly mix in all the Dry ingredients until combined. Stir in the chocolate Chips.

Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Roll dough into a small ball about the size of a walnut; roll balls in the icing sugar.

Place on parchment covered baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches between the cookies. Bake 6-7 minutes. Remove from oven and insert 1 unwrapped Kiss on each cookie in the centre, pressing down firmly without the kiss touching the cookie sheet on the underside.

Return to oven for 2 minutes more of baking.

Let the cookies cool on the sheet; transfer to racks to cool completely before storing (the kisses take a few hours to reset, you don’t want to store them before they reset, otherwise they will not maintain their cute little shape.

45 Responses

[…] cranberries to the batch to make them a little more festive. And last but not least, the delightful Chocolate Crinkle Kisses that really embrace the festive season with the lovely candy cane kiss! I even snuck in some […]

I visited the Belleicious web site but found the formatting on her blog just didn’t make for very comfortable viewing on my monitor (it seemed very claustraphobic) so I won’t be returning. A shame, because the recipes I did look at seemed interesting.

Beautiful, festive and easy — you’ve won the Trifecta. I might have to search out some of those Hershey candies because these would look so good on a cookie plate. I’ve been looking for a peppermint cookie for awhile.

I understand about the candy cane flavour, the cookies are seriously chocolatey. If you are not putting the candy cane kiss in the centre, I would press down each ball with the palm of your hand and bake the extra 2 minutes.